I mistakenly tried to erase & restore it to factory settings when the unthinkable happened.. you guessed it- error 1501. I've tried for the better half of 7 hours to fix this. Several youtube videos and this tutorial later, I'm still stuck. Any tips/advice?

Also, with that tutorial I linked to.. it said to download redsn0w, which I did.. but when I go to open it all that comes up is a text file with code. I think if I can fix that, I'll have a better shot at fixing my iPhone.

I'm not too sure of the phones specifics, but it was on baseband 6.15, and I think firmware was 4.1(not certain).

So it's activated now, which I did using redsn0w. Next issue- I can't jailbreak it. I've tried using both redsn0w and greenpois0n. redsn0w gets stuck mid jailbreak at the "loading ramdisk" portion. greenpois0n seemed to work, but once it finished the iPhone showed no signs of being jailbroken(no Cydia or similar installed). Any suggestions?

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